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Kudankulam plant starts production 23 Oct 2013 - 02:00 am

The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu. NEW DELHI: India’s largest nuclear plant — dogged by protests and multiple delays — is...

Sri Lanka raises concerns 23 Oct 2013 - 01:57 am

Colombo: The Sri Lankan government yesterday said it could not rule out the possibility of a threat to the island posed by the...

The NR Eye: Haryana rolls out red carpet for diaspora investment 23 Oct 2013 - 01:52 am

by Moiz Mannan Following up on its earlier incentives and welfare measures for non-resident Indians, the wealthy north Indian state of Haryana has...

Onion prices touch Rs90 per kg; govt may import 23 Oct 2013 - 01:52 am

New Delhi: India may import onions to stabilise prices that have soared to `90 per kg in the national capital, Commerce and Industry...

End drone attacks secrecy: Rights groups 23 Oct 2013 - 01:45 am

Pakistani Christian minority leader J Salik (centre) holds a placard with the posters of the US President Barack Obama and Pakistan Prime Minister...

Taliban toxic bombs creating ‘medical complications’ 23 Oct 2013 - 01:42 am

ISLAMABAD: The United States should end the secrecy surrounding its drone campaign in Pakistan and Yemen and bring those responsible for illegal attacks...

More Pakistanis refuse free polio dose: Report 23 Oct 2013 - 01:41 am

ISLAMABAD: Compared to last year, more people have started refusing polio vaccines for their children in Pakistan, according to the consolidated report of...

Taliban toxic bombs creating ‘medical complications’ 23 Oct 2013 - 01:40 am

PESHAWAR: Pakistani Taliban are now using more toxic chemicals in their explosive devices to inflict lethal injuries on victims of their bomb and...

Afghan intelligence agency sacks ‘heroin addict’ officers 23 Oct 2013 - 01:40 am

KABUL: The intelligence service of opium-plagued Afghanistan has sacked 65 officers after discovering they were addicted to heroin, the agency’s head said yesterday....

Businessman accused of channelling aid money to militants 23 Oct 2013 - 01:40 am

KABUL: US inspectors are on the trail of a successful Afghan businessman they believe has channelled millions of dollars in aid to the...

16 presidential candidates disqualified 23 Oct 2013 - 01:40 am

KABUL: Afghan officials yesterday disqualified more than half of the candidates for the 2014 presidential election, marking a chaotic opening stage in the...

Post-typhoon search 23 Oct 2013 - 01:37 am

Members of Japan’s Ground Self-Defence Force remove debris as the search for missing people continued yesterday after a landslide caused by heavy rains...

Bangladesh, ILO on factory safety drive 23 Oct 2013 - 01:37 am

DHAKA: Bangladesh and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) will launch a $24m safety campaign yesterday in the latest effort to overhaul appalling conditions...

Lanka shuts factory after toxic gas leak 23 Oct 2013 - 01:36 am

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan authorities shut down a detergent factory in the capital Colombo yesterday after more than 70 people were hospitalised following a...

Khmer Rouge defence slams ‘showcase’ trial 23 Oct 2013 - 01:36 am

PHNOM PENH: Defence lawyers at Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge court yesterday denounced the trial of two former top regime leaders as a “showcase” that...

Suu Kyi finally gets Sakharov prize 23 Oct 2013 - 01:36 am

STRASBOURG, France: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday finally received the EU’s Sakharov rights prize she won in 1990 at the...

China defends its human rights record 23 Oct 2013 - 01:36 am

GENEVA: China defended its human rights record to the UN yesterday, insisting it has undertaken sweeping reforms as Tibetan activists said more must...

China blames weather for hampering efforts to banish smog 23 Oct 2013 - 01:35 am

BEIJING: China’s battle against a persistent air pollution crisis, which all but shut down a city of 11 million this week, is being...